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Putting All Those Tech Pieces Together. 1:1 Starting off with Momentum. Amanda on October 18th, 2009. Tweet My school has just wrapped up what I call Phase 1 of our Mac rollout to students and teachers. Rolling out nearly 1300 student Mac laptops in grades 7-10 and 400 staff laptops pk-12 has been exhilarating and exhausting at the same time. We have been preparing for this rollout for three years… actually […]. Continue reading about 1:1 Starting off with Momentum. My Blog has Moved! Who I am….
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Putting All Those Tech Pieces Together. Using Technology to Teach Reading. Amanda on April 7th, 2010. Tweet My daughter is learning to read to just like every other first grader our there. As a mom, this is my first time going through this experience since most of my teaching career has been in the secondary grades. So I’ve decided to help her the only way I know how and that involves […]. Continue reading about Using Technology to Teach Reading. Apple Remote Desktop – A Good Thing? Tweet I have a fantas...
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Putting All Those Tech Pieces Together. HIgh School Assessment for the 21st Century. Amanda on July 15th, 2008. Continue reading about HIgh School Assessment for the 21st Century. My Blog has Moved! Resources for Designing a Blended Class. Middle School Student Led Conferencing & Tech. Realtime Voting using the iPad and Phones. Parent Technology Workshops – Learning With Technology. Who I am…. WP Cumulus Flash tag cloud by Roy Tanck. Follow adecardy at http:/ twitter.com. What I am reading now….
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communication
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Putting All Those Tech Pieces Together. My Blog has Moved! Amanda on June 25th, 2011. Tweet Dear all, Some Tech Sense can now we found at http:/ www.amandadecardy.com/blog Do you ever feel like all of your techie identities are just out there… somewhere… all over the place? It was time to have an umbrella to help bring them all together. Visit my new page at http:/ www.amandadecardy.com which leads to my blog […]. Continue reading about My Blog has Moved! Middle School Student Led Conferencing & Tech.
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Putting All Those Tech Pieces Together. Using Prezi to Share the Big Picture about 1:1. Amanda on March 10th, 2009. Tweet As we move into full swing for our 1:1 planning at my school, we find ourselves in the position of celebrating and over-communicating about what we’ve been able to achieve with a laptop cart program. I decided to use prezi as it’s like a Keynote, but it’s much more dynamic to share those big […]. Continue reading about Using Prezi to Share the Big Picture about 1:1. My Blog has Moved!
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Job Description
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Putting All Those Tech Pieces Together. Parent Technology Workshops – Learning With Technology. Amanda on March 28th, 2011. Tweet Before the Spring Break, we held the fourth installment of our Parent Technology Workshops here at SAS – Pudong. We hold the workshops once a month for parents so that they can feel up to speed in their child’s education. As technology is a tool for their learning, the Parent Technology Workshops give parents […]. Why I Love Elective Classes…. Amanda on January 7th, 2009.
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Putting All Those Tech Pieces Together. Middle School Student Led Conferencing & Tech. Amanda on April 13th, 2011. Tweet Our middle school has been doing Student Led Conferencing (SLCs) for four years now and we’ve been making it better each year. As a middle school, we’ve come up with a plan of action and have something that we are going to move forward with next year. It has worked so well, our elementary […]. Continue reading about Middle School Student Led Conferencing & Tech. Every time I use techno...
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podcasts
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Putting All Those Tech Pieces Together. Why I Love Elective Classes…. Amanda on January 7th, 2009. Tweet I love the middle school that I work in because we have both elective classes AND a decent advisory program. Both give kids the opportunity to connect with adult mentors, which builds trust. My elective kids this quarter knew nothing about podcasting. The technology is not what scared them in the beginning… surprising me! Continue reading about Why I Love Elective Classes…. I just don’t get it!
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collaboration
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Putting All Those Tech Pieces Together. Resources for Designing a Blended Class. Amanda on June 21st, 2011. Tweet Many schools are using Course Management Systems to offer their students a blended instruction experiences. What resources (technology, human, etc.) do you currently have at your disposal that could assist you in doing this? What resources do you feel as an instructional designer you are missing that would hamper your efforts? Designing an online […]. Amanda on October 27th, 2008. Middle Scho...